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and other storage rooms. It is heated by steam and 
lighted by electricity. The structure was designed by 
Architect S. A. Bullard, and cost $19,975.00. 
A branch road about a quarter of a mile long with 
a carriage sweep at the south front of the pavilion has 
been laid out, and partially constructed, giving access 
to the building from the main park drives. Altogether 
it is a well located and substantial structure, well suited 
to its surroundings, and will serve a useful purpose 
as a shelter and rest house in summer and an amuse- 
ment pavilion in winter. It is the intention of the board 
to build cement walks from the building connecting 
with the general system in the park and to plant vines 
an area of about eighty acres and is a little more than 
one-half mile long from north J:o south and a quarter 
of a mile wide. The southern half is rolling and cov- 
ered with timber, which, in contrast to Washington 
Park, is almost pure black oak, interspersed with a few 
white oak, hickories and elms. North of the timber 
is a tract of twenty acres almost perfectly flat, at present 
under cultivation, but which it is the intention of the 
board to make an open lawn for field sports. North of 
this again is a twenty-acre tract which has been used 
for years as a pasture and contains some beautiful spe- 
cimens of native thorns pruned into odd shapes by the 
browsing of the cattle. The roads as planned make a 
NEW PAVILION IN WASHINGTON PARK, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
to cover the rough walls, which with clumps of shrub- 
bery will unite it better to its sylvan surroundings. 
No improvement work of great importance was 
undertaken during the year. The roads and walks were 
completed, banks sodded, a large amount of shrubbery 
purchased and set out around the borders of Washing- 
ton and lies Parks, and in a nursery established for 
the purpose near the service buildings in Washington 
Park. The total expenditure for the year was $52,- 
905.09. There are now 165.61 acres of parks and 
boulevards, which have cost, since the beginning of the 
park system in 1900, a total of $144,916.68. 
The chief work of development planned for the near 
future is- the improvement of North Park on plans pre- 
pared by O. C. Simonds of Chicago. This park covers 
circuit of the whole tract, with entrances at the south- 
east and northeast corners and a cross road from east 
to west through the timber, which will be used as a pic- 
nic ground. It is the intention of the board to proceed 
with the building of the roads immediately, after which 
the planting and other improvements recommended by 
Mr. Simonds will follow. 
Over 40,000 trees and shrubs were purchased by 
the board during the past year at an expenditure of 
about $2,000. Some of these were set out in the 
border plantations and others in the nursery. 
The area of the different parks is as follows : 
Washington Park, 132.16 acres; Williams Boulevard, 
18.17 acres ; lies Park, 10.52 acres ; South Grand Boule- 
vard, 4.76 acres. 
